'Borders', 'Louis Khehla Maqubela - A Vigil of Departure', 'Roger Ballen - Boarding House', 'Imagining Beauty' and 'In Context'
Various Artists at Iziko South African National Gallery'Borders': An exhibition from the Bamako Encounters 8th African Photographic Biennale
This will include a panel discussion with Mario Pissarra, Laurent Clavel, Zanele Muholi and Sean O'Toole on Friday 26th November 14:00 to 16:00. Contact Pam Warne to RSVP or for further details on 021 481 3956 or pwarne@iziko.org.za.
'Louis Khehla Maqubela: A Vigil of Departure': A Retrospective 1960 - 201
'Roger Ballen: Boarding House': Photography
The Boarding House is a three-story warehouse hidden among the gold mines of Johannesburg and inhabited by disenfranchised, impoverished families, fugitives and witch doctors. Lacking walls, many rooms are separated only by rugs, blankets, and metal sheets. In his visually complex tableaux, Ballen forgoes a strictly documentary approach and casts further doubt on their veracity, intervening to alter each room, and collaborating directly with the subject to create the sculptures and drawings that appear in the photographs.
'Imagining Beauty': Body Adornment including the work of Young South African Designers
Textiles and items of adornment from the gallery’s Permanent Collection are shown together with contemporary South African designers who have taken inspiration from our continent’s rich visual heritage and a legacy of innovation to create global fashion with a distinctive African signature. Included on the show are: Black Coffee, Craig Native, Darkie and others shown in Berlin last year, Michelle Kra, Boleved Beadwork, Andrew Putter.
Over a hundred works will be on display, including textiles; works on paper; video; paintings; sculpture; beadwork; headdresses; regalia; recycled fashion and body adornment created from found and precious materials.
'In Context': Contemporary South African and International Artists
In Context presents a diverse group of international and South African artists who share a rigorous commitment to the dynamics and tensions of place, in reference to the African continent and its varied and complex iterations, and to South Africa in particular. The works – wide-ranging, frequently provocative – engage with a number of pressing questions about space, context, and geography.
27 November - 27 January













